# Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois

By Gérard de Nerval.

"Sylvie: souvenirs du Valois" by Gérard de Nerval is a novella published in 1853. Set between memory and present, it follows a narrator haunted by his love for three unattainable women: Sylvie, a peasant girl from his youth; Aurélie, a seductive Parisian actress; and Adrienne, a noble beauty who enters a convent. Moving between past and present, the story explores unrequited love and lost ideals through lyrical prose that captivated writers from Proust to Breton, earning its place as a masterpiece of French Romanticism. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Commentator: Andrew Lang
- Translator: Lucie Page
- Subjects: French fiction -- Translations into English; Unrequited love -- Fiction

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